Sorting a tuple that contains tuples

MY_TUPLE = (
    ('A','Apple'),
    ('C','Carrot'),
    ('B','Banana'),
)

from opererator import itemgetter

MY_SORTED_TUPLE = tuple(sorted(MY_TUPLE, key=itemgetter(1)))

MY_SORTED_TUPLE = tuple(sorted(MY_TUPLE, key=lambda item: item[1]))

>>> import operator
>>> L = [('c', 2), ('d', 1), ('a', 4), ('b', 3)]
>>> map(operator.itemgetter(0), L)
['c', 'd', 'a', 'b']
>>> map(operator.itemgetter(1), L)
[2, 1, 4, 3]
>>> sorted(L, key=operator.itemgetter(1))
[('d', 1), ('c', 2), ('b', 3), ('a', 4)]

sorted(my_tuple, key=lambda tup: tup[1])

templist = [ (line[1], line) for line in MY_TUPLE ]
templist.sort()
SORTED_MY_TUPLE = [ line[1] for line in templist ]